Intel Sandy Bridge CPU Tested

InternationalHat said:
Now, 1156 is basically dying already after what, a year? Late '08 to potentially mid-late '11 for 1366 which has consistently been comparatively more than I can ever remember spending on a motherboard and it's gonna last MAYBE 3 years at best? I understand they have a performance lead, but I get the feeling they're just throwing motherboard manufacturers a bone and screwing people because they can.
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Things in this industry are different then they used to be. People don't have tons of money anymore to just throw at small upgrades. Manufactures know they have to give you a really good reason to spend your money now. So as a result things are changing monthly instead of yearly. Just look at the SSD market. In 2 years its done what HDD drives took almost 10 years to accomplish. Video cards have, for once, actually out paced the software (so now they are adding more displays to the mix).

I know it may seem like your getting suckered, but in fact its awsome that we are able to make progress like this, this fast.
 
jwalk6 said:
So the Wiki (if you can believe it) says Sandy Bridge is supposed to start at 3.0GHz, be 32nm and supposedly be incorporating a GPU on die at some point and be the successor to Nehalem.

This doesn't look too impressive as engineering samples go. I expected 2 more cores at least...

I guess it's early though.
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I think its good that theres an integrated GPU for a "high end" system, it means we no longer need those big noisy cards. And its displayport. So there shall be inteleyevisionfinity. Possibly in 3d. Though you might need SLIed/CF CPUs.

Also I think its mean that there shall be a pulsewave created by one that shall break all the i7s and make them slow'n'stuff. And why 1155 and not 1365? Its like 210 more. 2011!? Do these numbers relate to anything that makes sense? Do they have a time machine and they invented the old chips during the medieval period?

Anyway, according to the 1155 article;

"Processors of LGA 1155 and LGA 1156 socket is not compatible with each other since they have different socket notches."

Because they is not compatible, is it possible to mod the chip with a saw???
 
InternationalHat said:
I don't like this. 775 came out in ~04 and lasted until late '08. That's over 4 years... almost 5
AM2 was ~06 and is still going with tweaks. That's a similar lifecycle to 775.

Now, 1156 is basically dying already after what, a year? Late '08 to potentially mid-late '11 for 1366 which has consistently been comparatively more than I can ever remember spending on a motherboard and it's gonna last MAYBE 3 years at best? I understand they have a performance lead, but I get the feeling they're just throwing motherboard manufacturers a bone and screwing people because they can.
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ok you say that like a bad thing a year is a LONG time in the digital world any more
and its only going to get faster

imo in the next 10 years your going to see product cycles in the scale of months and then in the next 100 the scale of weeks :eek:
 
DeathPrincess said:
I think its good that theres an integrated GPU for a "high end" system, it means we no longer need those big noisy cards. And its displayport. So there shall be inteleyevisionfinity. Possibly in 3d. Though you might need SLIed/CF CPUs.

Also I think its mean that there shall be a pulsewave created by one that shall break all the i7s and make them slow'n'stuff. And why 1155 and not 1365? Its like 210 more. 2011!? Do these numbers relate to anything that makes sense? Do they have a time machine and they invented the old chips during the medieval period?

Anyway, according to the 1155 article;

"Processors of LGA 1155 and LGA 1156 socket is not compatible with each other since they have different socket notches."

Because they is not compatible, is it possible to mod the chip with a saw???
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No. The socket notch is moved to prevent you from accidentally trying to put the chip in an incompatable socket. Intel changed the voltage plane's going from Nehalem to Sandy Bridge; it was the need for diffferent power configuration that required the notch change.
 
Elios said:
ok so for 8 core or more that might be useful but for now nothing even maxes out 3 channel on i7 seem way over kill
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Intel gave anandtech some info about needed memory bandwidth and the LGA1156 socket. One of the things they said was that the dual channel controller would begin to bottleneck some real world uses with a 6 core cpu. The logical implication is that the 8 core (and hypothetical 22nm die shrink 12core models) will need a quad channel controller. While going from DDR-1333 to 1600 will help somewhat clock speeds and per cycle efficiency will likely also increase requiring more bandwidth from the memory controllers.

While it's possible that the 8 core chips will be largely priced out of our reach Intel's decision to move the socket split point to have enthusiast CPUs share the same socket as workstation CPUs instead of mass market chips means that to an extend we're paying for stuff we don't really need. Had they left it as it was in the LGA771/775 days though either our high end CPUs would be bottlenecked or the buyers of mass market chips would be paying for things they don't need. Unfortunately for us there're a lot more mass market CPU buyers and they're alot more sensitive to price than we are.
 
nimbyfaygo said:
E8400 is still getting the job done for me. Even though with the OC its showing its age.
I'll jump on the I7 bandwagon about the time the new socket is released. That's when the best deals pop up.
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I remember the core 2 quads didn't move hardly at all even 6 months after bloomfield was released. Then the supply dried up and the few that were left were still up around a grand which made no sense at all.

I think Intel is actively trying to defeat your strategy.

:cool:
 
DeathPrincess said:
"Processors of LGA 1155 and LGA 1156 socket is not compatible with each other since they have different socket notches."

Because they is not compatible, is it possible to mod the chip with a saw???
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Ok, well, let me know how that works out for you.
 
jwalk6 said:
Ok, well, let me know how that works out for you.
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I shall! or, ill give anyone $5 to try this first!

Is it me, or is there something very mobile chip about this whole thing. The whole being made for low power, the GPU on chip. The fact that in the text at the top it says its for mobiles.
 
swetmore said:
All the reason to stick with my Q6600 that I have had since early 2007 on my trusty Abit IP35Pro... Seriously... waiting for an 8 core product. Too many socket changes..
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yup. ill wait for 2011 and quad channel memory. that'll be a bit passed my typical 3 year cycle, but it'll probably be worth the wait as opposed to dumping 1.5k - 2k for an i7 build in the next 6 months just to see negligible performance increases from my current setup. (based on what i use my system for anyway).

all i really want is a system that is capable of extracting .rar's and archives at sizes of 1GB+ in less than 5 seconds. when can i expect that? hmm????
 
Apathy said:
all i really want is a system that is capable of extracting .rar's and archives at sizes of 1GB+ in less than 5 seconds. when can i expect that? hmm????
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You are much more bottlenecked by your HDD rather than CPU.
 
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